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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. MAB. 26, 1910.

EDINBURGH CLUBS. Can any reader in- form me where I can see original papers (minutes, rules, lists of members, &c.) relating to Edinburgh clubs of the eigh- teenth century and the early part of the nine- teenth, such as Antemanum, Crichton, Gowks, Boars, Crockallan Fencibles, &c. ? H. A. COCKBURN.

Junior Carlton Club, Pall Mall, S.W.

INDEX TO THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS. Is there any general index to the works of either the Greek or the Latin Fathers ?

KOM OMBO.

INDEX TO FOXE'S ' ACTS AND MONUMENTS.' Has any one ever prepared Indexes Nominum and Locorum to Foxe's ' Acts and Monuments ' ? I possess Seeley's edition, 1839, edited by the Rev. S. R. Cattley ; but the index is wholly inadequate. I am acquainted with Maitland's list of the martyrs in his ' Essays on Subjects connected with the Reformation,' 1899 ; but this is incomplete and unsatisfactory.

W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

ARMS OF JOHANN SCHOTT. Can any of your readers throw light on the following rather curious arms, granted by Charles II. (III.) of Lorraine in 1570 to my ancestor Johann Schott ( = Scot), a German soldier of fortune, and traditionally descended from Scottish immigrants ? The arms, which we may presume to have been devised by the grantee, seem to suggest some allusion to which no clue is given in the papers which he left behind him (described in The Ancestor, v. 169). The original grant is as follows :

" D'azur au levrier d'argent courant accolle" d'un collier de geule charge^ de bouton d'or lie apres une sphere d'or en chef de 1'^cu."

The sphere in chief is described in the German memoirs as a " large ball or round " (" Kegel oderkugel"); the greyhound is of English breed.

It appears evident to me that there must have been in existence at some time a drawing of these arms, since in Siebmacher's ' Wappenbuch ' the sphere is represented as a ball-shaped cattle-bell, a mistake which could only have arisen from some one's having seen the arms depicted. In Pelletier's ' Nobi- liaire ' the arms are given correctly.

The greyhound was the device on the standard of the Scottish Archers of the King of France, with the motto " Fidelis " (Forbes -Leith, ' Scots Men-at-Arms '). Can any reader explain the origin of this banner ?

Is there anything in the theory that

Johann Schott, archer " de la garde" at Nancy, and claiming to be of Scottish descent, may have had in mind the standard of the Scottish archers ? The motto ' ' Treu " ("fidelis") seems to have been associated with ids arms some seventy years ago, but I have no evidence of its contemporary con- nexion. J. W. SCOTT, Bt. Yews, Windermere.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. Farewell.

Be prosperous in this journey, as in all,

And may you light on all things that you love.

2. May your joy be as deep as the ocean, And your sorrow as light as its foam.

M. A. W.

JACOBITE SONG. Can you tell me of a Jacobite song having as its refrain the words, Nowhere else does a true heart beat, But under the tartan plaid ?

I think it is a lament of Prince Charlie.

JANE ISDALE. St. Stephen's Manse, Muirton Bank, Perth.

BIBLIOTHECA DRUMMENiANA. Can any of your readers assist me to identify the Bibliotheca Drummeniana ? There has lately passed through my hands a most interesting manuscript catalogue of this library, entitled ' Catalogus Librorum qui reperiuntur in Bibliotheca Drummeniana.* Compiled evidently during the first half of the seventeenth century, the manuscript comprises about seventy octavo pages, representing some 1,500 entries. It is written in a small, neat hand throughout, and with two or three exceptions the titles of the books are in Latin, arranged under the following heads, but without dates of pub- lication : ' Biblia,' ' Patres, ' ' Ecclesiastic! Historic!,' ' Historic!,' ' Libri Pontific.,* ' Philosophi,' ' Mathematici,' ' In Juris- prudentia,' ' Politic!,' ' In Medicina,' ' Hu- maniores Musae,' ' Epistolse,' ' Orationes,* ' Poetse.' Among the latest books cata- logued I find ' Musae Gratulatoriae Regi Jacobo.' G. E. MAN WARING.

ALLEGORICAL PICTURE. I bought last October, at a sale at Willis's Rooms, a curious old picture, about which I should be glad i any one could give me information, e.g. as to its painter, its date, its allegory.

It is on thick panel, somewhat decayed and worm-eaten, measuring about 4 ft. 3 in. by 3 ft. 2 in. Under the principal figure are the following verses :

Quattuor adversus justum certamina vinci Quattuor auxilys picta tabella docet.